PTC doesn’t like new FOXADHD ‘Easter Bunny’s Coming’ vid…we try to figure out why

First thing’s first. I had NO idea Easter was this Sunday until like yesterday when I watched this new music video from FOX ADHD called ”Easter Bunny’s Coming” and how else would I? I don’t believe in God and Cadbury Eggs make me sick. Unfortunately, the PTC wasn’t appreciative of FOX’s help to let us all know that Easter is indeed coming and as a result as filed a petition to FOX, Target, and whomever else pays for ADHD to be a thing and take down this video at once! Before we get into their ridiculous press release, let’s watch the video in question, shall we?

So here’s the PTC’s problem with the video:

“Nine months ago we issued an urgent warning to parents, as well as a harsh condemnation to Fox Broadcasting and potential sponsors, regarding the network’s new ‘ADHD’ programming block. Fox has now validated our concerns by creating the most explicit material we’ve ever seen produced by a broadcast television network. Though still being distributed by Fox only via the Internet, the network is using its weekly broadcast to promote the website, and children are clearly in the cross hairs. And the recently tarnished retailer, Target, appears to be underwriting explicit material on the ‘ADHD’ website,” said PTC President Tim Winter. 

Why would this be an urgent warning to parents? The programming block doesn’t come on until 11 pm on Saturday Nights on FOX which is an hour that has been targeted towards adults for over 20 years! Does anyone remember MADtv? Or In Loving Color? Those shows were awesome, but did WAY more violence and racial humor than anything FOX ADHD has done (except maybe the unaired High School USA episode)! And it’s not true that ADHD is only distributed through the internet, and furthermore what FOX puts on Youtube is their business. For starters, you have to be 13 years old to sign up for a Youtube account and then usually videos with graphic content, Youtube takes it upon themselves to verify your age. If your kids are lying about their ages on the internet, you have a whole lot more to worry about than what cartoons the kids are watching.

“We thought we had seen the worst of ‘ADHD’ when Fox aired a segment several months ago with high school characters gleefully taking cell phone pictures of their genitals and texting the photos to other students. That content pales in comparison to the material in this new video.

Somewhere out there, Dino Stamatoupolos (High School USA) is going “Phew! I’m NOT the worst!”

“The animated Easter Bunny clip, which runs 2 minutes and 19 seconds in duration, features over a dozen unbleeped ‘f-words;’ depictions of dozens of fornicating rabbits; more than a dozen instances of a vulgar slang term for ejaculation; a depiction of a male character eating rabbit feces; and music lyrics that are grotesquely sexualizing and misogynistic. An overt reference to Christians and Jews only adds to the offensive nature of a video being promoted during Holy Week and Passover.

Do Jews believe in the Easter Bunny? I honestly had no idea. By the way, am I the only one who things the PTC’s description of the video is AS FUNNY if not more so than the actual video?

“The ‘ADHD’ Easter Bunny segment isn’t some random Internet video, it’s easily X-rated material that directly targets, and appeals to, children. The content is produced and copyrighted by one of the major commercial broadcast television networks and they’re using the publicly-owned airwaves as a promotional vehicle to drive traffic to the ‘ADHD’ website. The suits at Fox will need to explain how such a use of their broadcast licenses fulfills their statutory public interest obligation.”

Again, most of the adult internet requires you to be 13 years old to sign up for anything MINIMUM and then they usually ask your birth dates, so really if the kids are already well-versed in that arena, then parents have bigger fish to fry!

The PTC goes on to warn Target about featuring its ads on FOX ADHD programming, but that probably won’t happen. Why? Because kids can’t buy shit at Target without money and who is going to shell out that money? The parents. So if the parents think it’s a good idea to give their kids money at Target then that’s for them to decide, not the PTC.

What do you guys think of the PTC’s claims against FOX’s new video? Do you think the network is gearing their content towards kids?

 

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